St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-11

the sunlight; he does not even know the
spiders web is spun, and with MS voice
he shakes the mountain.
Some men come spinning their sophis-
tries and skepticism about Jesus Christ;
He seems to be sleeping. They say:
1--WE have captured the Lord; He will
never come forth again upon the nation;
Christ is captured forever. His religion
will never make any conquest among
men," But after while the Lion OF the
Tribe of Judah will rouse himself and
come forth to shake nightly the nations.
What's spiders web to the aroused
lion? Give truth and error fair Crap
pie and truth will come off victor.
But there are a great many goodpeople
who get affrightened in other respects;
they are affrightened in our day about
revivals. They say: ooh! this strong
religious gale; we are afraid the Church
of God is going to be upset, and there
are going to be great many people
brought into the church that are going
to be of no use to it," and they are
affrightened whenever they see revival
taking hold of the churches.
AS though a ship captain with five
thousand bushels of wheat for cargo
should say, some day, coming upon deck:
s'Throw overheard all CARGO" and the
sailors should say "Why, captain, what
do you mean? Throw over all the cargo?"
"Oh,' says the captain, Eve have peck
of chaff that has got into this five thou
sand bushels of wheat, and the only way
to get rid of the chatf is to throw all the
wheat overheard" Now, that is great
deal wiser than the talk OF great
many Christians who want to throw over
board all the thousands and tens of thou
sands of souls who are the subjects OF re-
vivals Throw all overheard because
they are brought into the kingdom OF
God through great revivals, because there
is a peck of chatf, quart OF chatf, pint
of chatf say, let them stay until the
Last Day; the Lord will divide the chah
from the wheat
Do not be afraid of great revival.
Oh, that these gales from Heaven might
sweep through all our churches! Oh,
for such DAYS as Richard Baxter saw in
England and Robert McCheyne saw in
Dundee! Oh, for such days as Jonathan
Edwards saw in Northampton I have
often heard my father tell Of the fact that
in the early part of this century revival
broke out at Somerville, N. j., and some
people were very much agitated about it.
They said: "Oh you are going to bring
too many people into the church at once"
and they sent down to New Brunswick to
get John Livingston to stop the revival.
Well, there was no better soul in all
the world than John Livingston. He
went and looked at the revival; they
wanted him to stop it. He stood in the
pulpit on the Sabbath and looked over
| the solemn auditory and he said: "Ihis,
brethren, is in reality the work of God;
beware how you try to stop it." And
he was an old man, leaning heavily on
| his staft-a very old man. And he lifted
that staff, and took hold of the small
end of the staff, and began to let it fall
very slowly through, between the finger
and the thumb, and he said: oh, thou
impenitent thou art falling now
falling away from life, falling
away from peace and Heaven, fall
ing as certainly as that cane is
falling through my hand-falling GER
tainly though, perhaps, falling slowly"
And the cane kept on falling through
John Livingston's hand. The religious
emotion in the audience was overpower-
ing, and men saw type of their doom,
rs the cane kept falling and falling, until
the knob of the cane struck Mr. Living
ston's hand, and he clasped it stoutly
and said: But the grace of God can stop
YOU, as l stopped that cane;" and then
there was gladness all through the house
at the fact of pardon and peace and sal
walton. "Well,' said the people after the
service, II guess you had better send
Livingston home; he is making the re-
vival worse" Oh, for the gales from
Heaven, and Christ on board the ship!
The danger of the Church of God is not
in revivals.
Again, my subject impresses me with
the fact that Jesus was God and man in
the same being. Here He is in the back
part of the boat. Oh, how tired He looks
what sad dreams He must have! Look
at his countenance; He must be thinking
of the cross to come. Look at Him; He
is man, bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh Tired, He falls asleep; He is a
man. But then find Christ at the prov
of the boat; hear Him say, peace, be
stillr and | see the storm kneeling at
His feet, and the tempests folding their
wings in His presence; He is God
If have sorrow and trouble, and want
sympathy, go and kneel down at the
back part of the boat, and say: 90,
Christ! weary one of Gennesaret, SYM
pathize with all my sorrows, man OF
Nazareth, man of the cross A man, a
man. But if l want to conquer my
spiritual foes, if I want to get the victory
over sin death and hell, | come othe front
of the boat, and kneel down, and say
90, Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who dost
hush the tempest, hush all my grief
hush all my temptation, hush all my
sin" A man, man; God, God.
| learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush a tempest.
1t did seem as if everything must 60 tc
rum. The disciples had given up thu
idea of managing the ship; the crew
were entirely demoralized; yet Chris
rises, and He puts His foot on the storm
and it crouches at His feet. Oh, yes
Christ can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it wa
the little child taken away from you-th'
sweetest child of the household, the ONT
who asked the most curious questions
and stood around you with the creates
fondness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was al
only son, and your heart has ever sine
been like desolated castle, the owls o
the night hooting among the falling
arches and the crumbling stairways.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. 70,
, went to her with YOUR troubles. She wa